Staying The Night

Posted by on Monday, June 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment 

As promised, here’s the second piece of my marching band show, tentatively titled Staying The Night.

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This piece was inspired by the nights in the hospital when Miles was born. There was something special about night time there that’s hard to explain. It’s never really dark in a hospital, and it’s never really quiet, but it has a darkness and a quietness of its own that settles into each room that adds both a strangeness and an intimacy to the experience. Those first nights are both peaceful and exhausting at the same time. As I would settle in to our room with my wonderful wife for the night we would recount the day, express our fears, re-connect as new parents and anticipate what was next in the very first moments of our new family.

Much Metta,

John

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